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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    June 13, 2008


    Receiver Pathways


    This week's puzzle theme has to do with terms familiar in receiver designs – and non-ham related areas too. It depends on your perspective.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Superhet preceder
    6. BCD followers
    10. UA missile made famous by YI
    14. _____ loop
    15. Meadow mouse
    16. LA capital
    17. ___ to back...
    18. Part of LAN
    19. Nit hatchlings
    20. Teetering swizzle stick?
    23. Golf ball position
    25. Polite partner of TU
    26. Sensors using RF
    27. Antelope array element?
    30. CW preposition
    31. VS9H middle name
    32. Employs
    34. "___ that special?!"
    38. Supermarket scanner?
    41. What a non-ham might call rigs
    42. Prefix with -line
    43. I-land wine
    44. CW T
    45. Told to wait, on CW
    46. Thicker
    50. Function switch label
    52. Double curve
    53. Salt shaker?
    57. Lone entry class
    58. G-land YL title
    59. Label on a PS, possibly
    62. Like a xmtr in stby
    63. And others, for short
    64. RCA synonym
    65. Rig
    66. Pound brass, say
    67. Next to Quebec

    Down

    1. Foxhunt activity (abbr.)
    2. Ending, with engin-
    3. Go on DXpeditions, far and wide
    4. IT9 volcano
    5. NCL-2000 mfgr.
    6. Olympic swimmer Janet
    7. ___-12 antennas
    8. High spirits
    9. Whiplash preventer
    10. State with transistors
    11. Possible Bahamas prefix
    12. Worrier's worry
    13. Action people
    21. MI, MO and MT, QP mo.
    22. ARRL DX test mo.
    23. #44, #47 and others
    24. Become accustomed (to)
    28. Poor ops
    29. F H2O
    30. Word with line or point
    32. W7 state
    33. The Flex, e.g.
    34. Desktop feature
    35. /MM quarters
    36. Big bangs
    37. Lock of hair
    39. Hand game
    40. ZS dir. from W2
    44. Stg. before AF amp.
    45. W4 sect.
    46. A series cap. blocks it
    47. Eat away
    48. African owner of 27-across
    49. Upper or lower user
    50. Isle ____  (GD)
    51. _____ Day
    54. Calling in after the sked
    55. Pioneer digital comm. org.
    56. EME sound
    60. F-land one
    61. "___ bad!"

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